Frustration. Burnout. Attrition. It's Time To Address The National Teacher Shortage

The good news: There's an uptick in the hiring of new teachers since the pink-slip frenzy in the wake of the Great Recession. - Full Article

The bad news: The new hiring hasn't made up for the teacher shortfall. Attrition is high, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs has fallen some 35 percent over the past five years — a decrease of nearly 240,000 teachers in all.

Parts of most every state in America face troubling teacher shortages: the most frequent shortage areas are math, science, bilingual education and special education.

Whether this is a full-blown "crisis" or just one of many problems in education depends, I guess, on where you sit. The report you co-authored is titled A Coming Crisis in Teaching?Do you think the question mark is really needed?

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